In a recent blog post, I noted the arrival of PowerShell V5 preview within the technical preview of Windows 10. A slightly later version than is available for installation on down-level operating systems ( I use the latest V5 preview version both on my...

Some time back, in his blog post , Jeffrey Snover introduced one of the new Windows PowerShell 3.0 feature – Windows PowerShell Workflow . In that post, you saw a glimpse of how to author workflows using PowerShell syntax. This post dives into more details of authoring workflows using PowerShell...

Yesterday I posted an article about getting the online url for a cmdlet help topic. Today I want to demonstrate how we might take advantage of this piece of information. Since the link is already in the form of a … Continue reading → Read...

Now for something completely different but hopefully a little fun. I’m a big fan of word games and puzzles. Tim Bolton has assembled a few PowerShell themed crosswords, which you can find on his blog. I’ve always like word finds … Continue...

I see Tome Tanasovski, PowerShell MVP from New York, has started an interesting new podcast, the PowerShell Cmdlet of the Day Podcast. It’s inaugural edition was yesterday and it looked at the Get-Input cmdlet from the ShowUI modle. It’s worth a...

I’ve recently found out that I’ve been selected to speak at devLink 2011. This is my 3rd year in a row speaking at devLink, and I’m incredibly honored to have been selected. This year, I have 2 talks, and they are both on PowerShell...

This past Tuesday, I was privileged to speak at the Cleveland C#/VB.NET SIG on extending PowerShell. Since I knew that my audience wasn’t necessarily familiar with PowerShell (except a few), I spent the first half of the session introducing PowerShell...

In PowerShell V2 CTP3, you can create Advanced Functions which are, in effect, cmdlets written in script. I’ve already blogged about some of the cool features, particularly AutoHelp , which I find utterly cool! One neat aspect is the ability to define...

Those nice folks over at the SDM Software Group have posted a new Group Policy Cmdlet . This PoweShell cmdlet lets you check the health of Group Policy processing across computers in your domain. The cmdlethas a number of parameters you can use to check...